Theology And The Kinesthetic Imagination

Author : Kathryn Reklis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199373078
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination written by Kathryn Reklis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged in late modern Christian theology as candidates to reorient and reinvigorate reflection. In this Reklis describes the theological meaning of the body's ecstasy as "kinesthetic imagination," a term which extends beyond the Great Awakening to trace the way bodily ecstasy continues to be coded as the expression of a primitive, hysterical, holistic, or natural self almost always in contrast to a modern, rational, fragmented, or artificial self. Edwards, she shows, is an excellent interlocutor for the exploration of kinesthetic imagination and theology, especially as it relates to contemporary questions about the role of beauty, body, and desire in theological knowledge. He wrote explicitly about the role of the body in theology, the centrality of affect in spiritual experience, and anchored all of this in a theological system grounded in beauty as his governing concept of divine reality. This book offers an innovative reading of one of the most widely known American theologians and offers this reading as provocation for debates within contemporary conversations.

Author : Kathryn Reklis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199373086
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination written by Kathryn Reklis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged as candidates to reorient theological reflection by subverting the fragmentation of the self wrought by Western Enlightenment philosophies and the political and economic regimes those philosophies fund. Reklis returns to a particular moment in the history of Protestant Christianity and its collusion with the creation of this modern, rational subject: the publicly rehearsed theological debates regarding the series of 18th century Atlantic world revivals known as the Great Awakening and the work of pro-revivalist theologian Jonathan Edwards.

Author : Garrett Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802844842
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining God written by Garrett Green and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garrett Green examines the point at which divine revelation and human experience meet, where the priority of grace is acknowledged while allowing its dynamics to be described in analytical and comparative terms as a religious phenomenon.

Author : Robin Stockitt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498271162
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagination and the Playfulness of God written by Robin Stockitt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human imagination is a reflection of and a participation in the divine imagination; so mused the romantic poet, philosopher and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His thinking was intuitive, dense, obscure, brilliant, and deeply influenced by German philosophy. This book explores the development of his philosophical theology with particular reference to the imagination, examining the diverse streams that contributed to the originality of his thought. The second section of this book extrapolates his thinking into areas into which Coleridge did not venture. If God is intrinsically imaginative, then how is this manifested? Can we articulate a theology of the ontology of God that is framed in imaginative and creative terms? Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Huizinga on 'play,' this study seeks to develop a theological understanding of God's playfulness.

Author : Trevor Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317174941
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Image and the Word written by Trevor Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central contention of Christian faith is that in the incarnation the eternal Word or Logos of God himself has taken flesh, so becoming for us the image of the invisible God. Our humanity itself is lived out in a constant to-ing and fro-ing between materiality and immateriality. Imagination, language and literature each have a vital part to play in brokering this hypostatic union of matter and meaning within the human creature. Approaching different aspects of two distinct movements between the image and the word, in the incarnation and in the dynamics of human existence itself, Trevor Hart presents a clearer understanding of each and explores the juxtapositions with the other. Hart concludes that within the Trinitarian economy of creation and redemption these two occasions of ’flesh-taking’ are inseparable and indivisible.

Author : Gordon D. Kaufman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664243937
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theological Imagination written by Gordon D. Kaufman and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this challenging work, Gordon Kaufman asserts that the prime task of theology is the imaginative construction of the doctrine of God. Kaufman maintains that both the absoluteness of the divinity and our own necessity demand that we construct the doctrine of God critically and in a manner appropriate to our own time and place. In thorough examinations of God and theology, Christ and christology, and of the ultimate foundations of religious thought, he shows how this construction can be accomplished faithfully and in full realization of our own humanity.

Author : Barnabas Palfrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009020242
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Analogical Imagination written by Barnabas Palfrey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at advanced students and upwards, this tightly organised international collection from theological experts forms a coherent and creative introduction to the most widely influential English-speaking Roman Catholic theologian of the past fifty years. It fills a gap in up-to-date commentary on the breadth and ambition of Tracy's ongoing thought.

Author : Amos N. Wilder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625645058
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theopoetic written by Amos N. Wilder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's crucible of myths, theology has a special problem. Ancient scenarios provided by Scripture are especially vulnerable to the modern outlook. Amos Wilder, a distinguished scholar and critic, here relates the Christian faith, in depth, to the changes in modern man's sense of reality, and to the powerful new forms of spirituality that reflect these changes. The focus is upon the deeper dynamics of the religious situation--that is, upon its myths and dreams, symbols and arts--rather than upon its doctrines and social forms. A total vision requires a mythopoetic and not only isolated visions and epiphanies. The testimony of contemporary poets and believers demonstrates that world-old myths and sagas can still have living power. As Wilder writes, "Before the message, the vision; before the sermon, the hymn; before the prose, the poem. The discursive categories of theology as well as the traditional images of sermon and prayer require a theopoetic."

Author : David Tracy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780334018735
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Analogical Imagination written by David Tracy and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Tracy introduces his concept of the "classic," as well as his idea of the difference between analogical and other ways of viewing the life of faith. He looks at the culture of pluralism, examining the main differences in the world's theological doctrines.--From publisher's description.

Author : Julian Hartt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725217325
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theological Method and Imagination written by Julian Hartt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of reality can be perceived when the core problems of theology are freed from dependency upon highly technical and arcane ways of thinking and speaking? Writing with the logical clarity and critical acumen for which he is well-known in theological circles, Julian N. Hartt demonstrates the reality of theology's problems and shows how they can be perceived as part of a divine restiveness in living. Hartt finds the demands of revelation to be most profoundly registered upon the imagination--that power of the spirit by which the shape of things to come is grasped. Sensing a great hunger for fresh approaches to fundamental theological concerns, Hartt presents a boldly original scholarly work. In it the persistent theological puzzles about method are clarified, the elements of that method are described and major historical controversies about method are critiqued. Topics discussed include: beliefs and reasons, knowing and proving God, faith and hope, authority and scripture, revelation and historical evidence. A significant contribution to theology, this book shows that theological method entails describing the ways in which faith makes sense. Doing this, it speaks about incorrigible beliefs, those convictions so fundamental that without them the very sense of life and world would disappear. Sensing that society has begun to think of theological matters as mere inventions of theologians, Hartt seeks to return to those fundamental questions that are the concrete situation of the serious-minded Christian in the contemporary world.